“Create within the community a place of peace and safety, where the under served and forgotten are given not only the tools but the capability to foster within themselves a healthy and whole life.”-Rev. Panda

Everything flows from the Divine. Life, death, love, apathy…all are parts of the cycle of life, death, and rebirth. What then drives a connection between two or more people? How is this ineffable draw between unique and luminous beings created? …

Path’s cross, sometimes interconnecting for a few leagues. When this happens, friends and foes can both be made. Time, circumstance, and souls dictate which. Learning from these experiences and connections broadens the view on what can occur in the world. …

Sometimes leaving home for the first time can be difficult. This week’s retreat is the mountains of southern Montana and the northern gateway to Yellowstone National Park. A long-term visitor to the Retreat will be spending the summer there away…

We enter this world as complete innocents, devoid of logic or rationalization. Some say that this state is animalistic and instinctual. Others speak of an internal connection with mother, father, both, or neither. Like much of the world, what happens…

Feeling in a slightly childish mood, this retreat is in Germany. Many of us had tree houses when we were young and still look upon them as a retreat from the world. Sitting in the middle of a forest, this…